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16th Annual CIBER Business Language Conference
Speaker Biographies
Guest Speakers
Timothy Duvall, U.S. Department of Education
Dr. Tim Duvall joined the International and Foreign Language Education office after 15 years as a professor of political science and a small business owner. He earned his B.A. from The College of William and Mary, his M.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He taught at the University of Arizona and at St. John’s University in New York City where he earned multiple teaching and research awards. He has owned and operated a small construction company and he has written successful multi-million dollar grant proposals for international development projects. With the Advanced Training and Research Division in the office of International and Foreign Language Education, Tim oversees the NRC/FLAS programs for the Russian/East European/Eurasian and African regions and oversees the Centers for International Business Education and Research. He also serves as the Evaluation Team Lead for IFLE.
Waldo Galan, Executive
Waldo Galan is an automotive consultant with 32 years of International Automotive operations experience. He has lived and worked in major markets in South America (Venezuela, Brazil, and Chile) and managed sales, marketing, parts and service business operations in all Central and South America markets as well as the Caribbean. Mr. Galan has lived and worked in Japan with major responsibilities for automotive operations in selected Asia Pacific markets. Mr. Galan was the Managing Director for Ford Motor Company for six years and during this time he has lived in Dubai, where he managed the sales and marketing operations in the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Gulf Countries), and in Puerto Rico, where he managed Ford Motor Company’s businesses in 24 counties in the Caribbean and Central America.
Noel Gouff, Senior Director, Business Development at Control4
Noel Gouff is a Senior Director of Business Development at Control4, where he develops and markets technology licensing products for strategic partners. Previously he worked as Vice President of Corporate Development at Flextronics where he served as a “deal lead” for the company’s strategic, corporate development business group. His responsibilities included operations and supply chain consulting, corporate development, and corporate strategy on a global scale. Noel is well versed in international business through conducting operations in the United States, Asia, and Europe.
Michael Hoer, Executive
Michael A. Hoer has lived and worked in Asia for nearly 30 years, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Singapore. Mr. Hoer spent 18 years working for Continental Grain Company, where he was President & Managing Director of Continental Grain Asia for 11 years. Continental Grain's Asian operations included an investment company and four agri-business conglomerates with over 12,000 employees and over 30 wholly-owned and joint venture investments (mainly in China). Before working for Continental Grain, Mr. Hoer worked as Asia Financial Controller for Schlumberger, Systems Consultant for Andersen’s Consulting (now Accenture) and helped establish one of the first engineering management programs in China at the Xian University of Science and Technology. He was one of the founding members of Rabobank’s International Food and Agribusiness Asia Advisory Board; was an advisor to the American Management Association; and has been quoted in Business Week Magazine, the South China Morning Post, the China Daily, the Harvard Investment Analyst and various other papers and magazines. Mr. Hoer holds a BA in Chinese and an MBA from Brigham Young University. In 1979, he was one of the first 17 American students to attend university in China after the United States and China normalized relations and has maintained close ties with China ever since.
Lynnea S. Johnson, University of Illinois
Lynnea S. Johnson has been the Associate Director at the University of Illinois CIBER since 1999. In that position, she administers all aspects of federal grant program including conferences, advisory council meetings; faculty and doctoral research grant competitions, business and academic outreach activities, reporting, and preparation of promotional materials. Prior to her current position, she worked with engineering faculty to develop, design, and implement over 30 professional development programs per year for practicing engineers. Many were delivered via satellite with online and multimedia components. She has led study abroad programs to Costa Rica, Brazil, India, China and Europe. She received her B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of Illinois.
Gregg Roberts, Utah State Office of Education
Gregg Roberts is the World Language & Dual Language Immersion Specialist for the Utah State Office of Education. He is also co-project director of the Flagship Chinese Acquisition Program (F-CAP), a national consortium of 19 states led by Utah and recently funded by the National Language Flagship program. The consortium is working to develop and implement preK-16 programs that will produce Advanced-level speakers of Chinese upon high school graduation and professionally competent Superior speakers upon university graduation. His work with the Utah Legislature and Governor's office has led to groundbreaking changes in the way world languages are viewed and funded within the state's K-12 schools. As part of that work, he has led a group of K-12 educators, in collaboration with the state's institutions of higher education, in the design and implementation of Utah's highly successful Critical Language and Dual Language Immersion programs in Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish. In doing so, he has directed the development of K-12 immersion curricula, a comprehensive assessment program comprised of internal and external assessments, and professional development in those languages. He has also been instrumental in the implementation of teacher recruitment and alternative certification and professional development programs that are serving as models for other states. He was named the 2009 NCSSFL State Supervisor of the Year and is a recipient of the PalmsAcademiques from the French Government.
John Rosenberg, Brigham Young University
Dr. John Rosenberg, professor of Spanish and Dean for the BYU College of Humanities, graduated from BYU with a double major in psychology and Spanish. He completed a doctorate in Spanish literature at Cornell University in 1985 and returned to BYU to assume a full-time teaching position that same year. He was chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese department from 1993 to 1997 and associate dean of the College of Humanities from 1997 to 2005. Rosenberg, a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature. He has participated frequently in national and international conferences.
Harvey Scott, Governor's Office of Economic Development
Harvey Scott is the Director of International Trade & Diplomacy within the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Mr. Scott’s professional network is substantial and he has experience in manufacturing, supply chain management, M&A, and international trade and development in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has direct experience in creating and implementing international expansion strategies, international supply chain strategies, and evaluating and negotiating partnerships and facilitating equity transactions for small and large corporations across the globe. Mr. Scott has lived in England, China, Japan, Australia, Senegal, Uruguay, and Canada and worked in dozens of other countries. Mr. Scott spent most of his career with Rolls-Royce Plc. where he held roles in Supply Chain Management, Corporate Development and M&A. He was also privileged to work with the British Foreign Office and UK Trade and Investment on a special trade and development assignment for 12 months at the British Embassy in Tokyo Japan. He understands and has established public/private cooperative agreements and has worked with many regional development agencies worldwide. Mr. Scott is a graduate of Cornell University with two Masters Degrees, an MPA with a focus in economic development and his second in Organizational Development. He also has a BA in Business Administration from Southern Virginia University.
Michael Thompson, Brigham Young University
Michael Thompson is associate dean of the Marriott School, where he has been a faculty member since 1988. He teaches graduate courses in leadership and knowledge management. Before joining the faculty at BYU, he was executive director of the Public Service Training Program for the State of New York. During its operation, this was the largest professional development program in the nation’s public sector. In 1988 Thompson left his administrative post in the state university system in New York and joined the faculty in the Marriott School as a forty-year-old rookie professor. He considers this one of the best decisions of his life. Thompson earned his PhD in rhetoric and organizational communication and his MA in communications from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his BA in classical Greek from BYU. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Marriott School in 1995 and the Outstanding Teacher Award from the OBHR students in 2004.
Workshop Presenters
Annie Abbott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Annie Abbott is a Faculty Fellow in the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since 2006 she has taught “Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Language, Cultures & Communities” which focuses on the basics of social entrepreneurship, engages students in community service learning and analyzes nonprofit programming that is linguistically and culturally appropriate. She is Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Mark Ballam, San Diego State University, College of Business Administration
Mark J. Ballam serves as managing director for San Diego State University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (SDSU CIBER). Mr. Ballam came to San Diego State University in 2005, after serving eight years as associate director of the Georgia Institute of Technology CIBER. Before Georgia Tech, he had a twelve year career in the banking industry.
Betty Dlamini, Indiana University
Dr Betty Sibongile Dlamini is a professor at Indiana University. She graduated from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) with a PhD in African Languages and Cultures. She is an alumnus of the University of Sussex (Brighton) where she obtained her MA in English Literature and the University of South Africa (UNISA) where she obtained a BA Honours in English. She obtained her B. Ed degree from the University of Swaziland, where she taught English Literature in the Institute of Long Distance Learning. She is an associate editor of the journal of diversity in Education, in which she has published an article. She is a published author of Our Song, Our Dance, Our Drama, Our Development, a text book for Southern African Cultures, Asikhulume SiSwati: let’s speak SiSwati, a text book for learners of SiSwati as a foreign language, UMsamaliya Lolungile, a SiSwati novel that won the Macmillan grand prize of 2008, The Eagle: From a chicken run to the sky, a woman’s walk of faith, her autobiography, “Comfort,” a short story in I will be home for Christmas, a total of eight articles in the Dictionary of African Bibliography, three journal articles and a total of twenty four Zulu and Siswati short stories and plays in thirteen anthologies. She has a submitted Under the Blanket, a novel manuscript to Macmillan Publishers. Her research interests diverse, including Southern African Performance Arts and Development, Women and Gender, Comparative Cultures: African American and Southern Africa, Post-Colonial Studies and Diversity in Institute of Higher Education!
Margaret Gonglewski, George Washington University
Margaret Gonglewski is Associate Professor of German and International Affairs at George Washington University, where she directs the German language program. As co-coordinator of GW-CIBER Business Language initiatives, she has organized and led workshops and developed business language teacher education materials. Gonglewski has published articles on critical issues in second language pedagogy and co-authored the introductory German textbook Treffpunkt Deutsch.
Sarah Gordon, Utah State University
Dr. Sarah Gordon is Associate Professor of French/Associate Dept. Head in the Dept. of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies. She came to USU in 2002. In France, she worked for Xerox, Peugeot, and La Sorbonne, and was a restaurant critic.
Christine Uber Grosse, American University of Sharjah
Dr. Christine Uber Grosse is professor emeritus of Modern Languages at Thunderbird. She recently taught Business Communication at her alma mater the University of Mary Washington. Her articles on business language and intercultural communication have appeared in Business Communication Quarterly, Hispania, Foreign Language Annals, and the Modern Language Journal. She currently lives and works in the United Arab Emirates.
Anna Helm, George Washington University
Anna Helm, Assistant Teaching Professor of International Business at George Washington University, teaches international marketing and green business courses. Prior to joining GW, she directed the Business, Culture, and Languages Program at the University of Maryland. She is currently pursuing research on cross-cultural differences in consumer perceptions of green products. As GW-CIBER Business Language co-coordinator, she conducts research on business case methodology.
Christa Jones, Utah State University
Dr. Christa Jones is Assistant Professor of French in the Dept. of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies at USU. She came to USU in 2008. She was a financial journalist in Switzerland, Germany, and the UK. Her research focuses on Francophone North African culture.
Orlando R. Kelm, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Orlando R. Kelm is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as the Associate Director of Business Language Education at the UT CIBER. His most recent online materials development project is entitled "Conversa Brasileira" and his most recent book (John N. Doggett and Haiping Tang) is entitled "When We Are the Foreigners: What Chinese Think About Working With Americans."
Maggie Nassif, Brigham Young University
Dr. Maggie Nassif has a PhD in Post-Colonial Theory from Cairo University, and a Masters in Comparative Literature from The American University in Cairo. Maggie Nassif has studied Business at the Wharton School of Business and ASU where she completed her MBA in 2005. She has taught Literature, Women's Studies, Writing, Translation, ESL and Business Culture. She has also held several executive positions as ESL Coordinator at the State University of New York, and Director of the Arabic Summer MBA Program for The Wharton School of Business/Lauder Institute. She is currently the Administrative Director of the National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University.
Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Steve Riep is an associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Brigham Young University, where he headed the Chinese program from 2010-2013. He has taught business Chinese language courses at BYU since 2009, in addition to modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a project manager for a non-profit religious organization and supervised translation projects in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mongolia His research interests include disability studies; cultural production under authoritarian regimes; war, memory and literature; and ecocriticism.
Robert Russell, Brigham Young University
Robert Russell is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University, where he has taught courses in general and business Japanese, Japanese linguistics, and language teaching methodology. Research areas include Japanese second language acquisition and attrition, CALL materials design and development, and Japanese for business and other special purposes. Has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (1984-87, 1989-92), and as Language and Linguistics Editor of the Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese (now Japanese Language and Literature, 1995-97). Has directed BYU's Japan Internship and Study Abroad Program, has conducted needs analysis and curriculum design for Business Japanese, has given numerous presentations and workshops for teachers of Business Japanese, and has been the Principal Investigator of materials development grants from the U.S. Department of Education, Nippon Television Network Cultural Society and Fujitsu Ltd., and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Tomoko Takami, University of Pennsylvania
Tomoko Takami is a Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages and the Director of Japanese Language Program in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been teaching Business Japanese/ Japanese for Professions since 2000 and won the BLRT Award in 2013.
Yi Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yi Zhou teaches Chinese language to undergraduates and MBAs in CIBER and Department of Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her previous education includes foreign language education and MBA program. Her research interest focuses on teaching Chinese for business purpose and online language teaching and learning. She published Working Mandarin textbook with Lynne Gerber by Georgetown University Press in July 2007.
Paper Presenters
Annie Abbott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Annie Abbott is a Faculty Fellow in the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since 2006 she has taught “Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Language, Cultures & Communities” which focuses on the basics of social entrepreneurship, engages students in community service learning and analyzes nonprofit programming that is linguistically and culturally appropriate. She is Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Habiba Boumlik, LaGuardia Community College
Habiba Boumlik, Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, M.A.in Arabic and Islamic Studies and a BA in French as a Foreign Language. Her academic background and teaching experience include Arabic, French language and francophone cultures and literatures, Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Culture and Society in the West, Middle Eastern History, andArab Cinema. Prior to her current position at LaGuardia, she has taught inFrance, Hungary, and Egypt.
Steven F. Butterman, University of Miami
Steven F. Butterman (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Director of the Portuguese Language Program since 2000, teaching Portuguese language courses and Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and cultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, where he also serves as Coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Studies Programs and directs the Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum program.
Osvaldo Cleger, Georgia Institute of Technology
Osvaldo Cleger has worked since 2011 on developing a Locative Media Learning Model aimed at providing intermediate and advanced Spanish language learners with an opportunity to engage in place-based education in conjunction with the acquisition of advanced linguistic competence and e-literacy skills. His current research focuses on the impact that recent technological developments have on the cultural, pedagogical and literary fields.
Danika Cornelius, Seacrest Country Day School
Danika Cornelius (B.A. in Spanish 2009, minor in Anthropology Florida Gulf Coast University). She has presented at AATSP and at FFLA, and other local and regional conferences. Spanish for Leadership and Global Competency grew out of the realization of the multiple-disciplinary and employment opportunities available to those proficient in world language. Danika currently teaches at Seacrest Country Day School in Florida.
Bettina Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bettina Cothran is Professor of German and a founding member of the Business German movement in the US. She developed materials and examinations [such as the “Diplom Wirtschaftsdeutsch” later adopted by the Goethe Institut]. She has been instrumental in the curriculum development of “Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies” at Georgia Tech, including the signature “LBAT” summer immersion program.
Meredith Doran, Penn State University
Dr. Meredith Doran is a Research Associate at the Center for Language Acquisition at Penn State University. A long-time teacher of French and Spanish, her research interests include second language pedagogy, language teacher education, intercultural communicative competence, and sociolinguistics.
Michael Scott Doyle, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dr. Michael Scott Doyle (PhD, University of Virginia) is a Professor of Spanish, Translation Studies, and Business Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is serving as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish at the United States Air Force Academy during the 2013-2014 academic year.
Lars Erickson, University of Rhode Island
Lars Erickson is associate professor of French at the University of Rhode Island where he is Director of the French International Engineering Program. He has extensive experience placing engineering students in internships in France and teaching French for specific purposes. His recent research appears in the French Review, the Online Journal of Global Engineering Education, and Global Business Languages.
T. Bruce Fryer, University of South Carolina, Beaufort
T. Bruce Fryer (PhD, University of Texas-Austin) holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina-Columbia where he taught Spanish for International Business from 1970 through 2005. More recently he has taught Spanish language, second language methodology, and Spanish for International Business as Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort.
Robert C. Giambatista, University of Scranton
Robert Giambatista is an associate professor of Management in the Kania School of Management at the University of Scranton. Among his interests are conflict and negotiation, group dynamics and diversity, leadership, behavioral skills, and organizational behavior.
Margaret Gonglewski, George Washington University
Margaret Gonglewski is Associate Professor of German and International Affairs at George Washington University, where she directs the German language program. As co-coordinator of GW-CIBER Business Language initiatives, she has organized and led workshops and developed business language teacher education materials. Gonglewski has published articles on critical issues in second language pedagogy and co-authored the introductory German textbook Treffpunkt Deutsch.
Janet Graham, Center for Advanced Professional Studies, Blue Valley School District
Graham instructs global business at an innovative high school profession-based learning program. Also, as adjunct professor of MBA/International Business at Baker University, she draws upon 15 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience working in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia. Her interest began in promoting cross-cultural understanding and connecting businesses with students while studying as a Rotary Scholar in France.
Christine Uber Grosse, American University of Sharjah
Dr. Christine Uber Grosse is professor emeritus of Modern Languages at Thunderbird. She recently taught Business Communication at her alma mater the University of Mary Washington. Her articles on business language and intercultural communication have appeared in Business Communication Quarterly, Hispania, Foreign Language Annals, and the Modern Language Journal. She currently lives and works in the United Arab Emirates.
Anna Helm, George Washington University
Anna Helm, Assistant Teaching Professor of International Business at George Washington University, teaches international marketing and green business courses. Prior to joining GW, she directed the Business, Culture, and Languages Program at the University of Maryland. She is currently pursuing research on cross-cultural differences in consumer perceptions of green products. As GW-CIBER Business Language co-coordinator, she conducts research on business case methodology.
Sean R. Hill, Farwell High School; Mid Michigan Community College
Sean R. Hill is a Spanish teacher at Farwell High School in rural Michigan and an adjunct instructor at Mid Michigan Community College. He has earned Masters Degrees in both Spanish and Secondary Education from Central Michigan University.
Arsena Ianeva-Lockney, University of Minnesota
Arsena Ianeva-Lockney has attended a German Immersion School in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has studied German and Scandinavian languages in Bulgaria, Germany, Norway and Iceland. She holds a PhD in Germanic Philology from the University in Minnesota, where she currently teaches German and Norwegian. Using the methods of content-based language instruction, she focuses in her Business German course on sustainability.
Orlando R. Kelm, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Orlando R. Kelm is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as the Associate Director of Business Language Education at the UT CIBER. His most recent online materials development project is entitled "Conversa Brasileira" and his most recent book (John N. Doggett and Haiping Tang) is entitled "When We Are the Foreigners: What Chinese Think About Working With Americans."
George G. King, Utah Valley University
After having lived in France extensively, George G. King obtained his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in French from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He then continued his Doctoral Studies at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He has taught all levels of college French for years and enjoys sharing the French language, literature and culture with eager young college students.
Katharina Kipp, Purdue University
Katharina Kipp is a Ph.D. student and instructor of German at Purdue University and has taught Business German at the intermediate level. She has also taken the Goethe B2- exam (formerly ZDfB) to get certified as an examiner for the intermediate level.
Leland J. L'Hote, IES Abroad
LLeland is Program Dean for IES Abroad’s Centers in Spain, Morocco, and South America and previously served on the faculties at Longwood University and Iowa State University, where he served as Spanish Section Head and Director of the Language and Cultures for Professions Program. He has published research and presented on contemporary Spanish narrative & cinema, as well as on a variety of study abroad-related topics, including service learning abroad and summer programming for the professions.
Shuai Li, Georgia State University
Shuai Li is an assistant professor of Chinese and Chinese program coordinator at Georgia State University. His research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, Chinese as a second language acquisition, and Business Chinese teaching.
Meng Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Meng Liu is a second year PhD student in the Department of EALC at UIUC (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). My research interests lie in second language acquisition, pedagogy, acoustic/articulatory phonetics, and speech technology. My teaching experience comes from teaching Chinese at Indiana University, the Flagship Chinese Institute, and UIUC. I have taught 1st year through 3rd year Chinese, and Business Chinese specifically.
Mary K. Long, University of Colorado-Boulder
Mary K. Long is Director of International Spanish for the Professions, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado Boulder. Recent publications include "Language for Specific Purposes Job Announcements from the Modern Language Association Job List: A Multiyear Analysis" Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes. U of Alabama Birmingham Digital Collections, 2013.
Maria del Milagro Lozada Cerna, University of Pennsylvania, Lauder Institute
Maria del Milagro Lozada (a.k.a. Mili) is the Interim Director of Language and Culture Programs and the Director of the Spanish Program at the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Mili has taught Spanish language, Hispanic literature and culture, and Business language at many different institutions in the United States and abroad, including Temple University, the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and the University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Martin, California State University, San Bernardino
Elizabeth Martin is Associate Professor of French at California State University, San Bernardino where she teaches courses in business French, French advertising, commercial and technical French translation, and Francophone business cultures. Her research interests include sociolinguistic approaches to language policy and advertising, Web localization and intercultural business communication.
Heather McCoy, Penn State University
Heather McCoy, Ph.D is a Senior Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Penn State University. She is the co-author of the Business French textbook Parlons affaires! Cengage, 2013) Her interests include French for special purposes, second language pedagogy, and film studies.
Erin McNulty, Dickinson College
Erin McNulty is an assistant professor of Spanish and the Language Coordinator at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Her publications focus on Processing Instruction and the acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive. In addition to teaching language classes, she also teaches upper-level courses in sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and Spanish for the Business Professions.
Deirdre Mendez, The University of Texas at Austin
Deirdre Mendez is director of the Center for International Business Education and Research at The University of Texas at Austin, where her responsibilities include preparing students for adaptability in the international context. A sociolinguist by training, she teaches intercultural teambuilding to international student teams and has developed materials to enhance cultural learning during study abroad.
Amel Mili, University of Pennsylvania, Lauder Institute
Amel Mili is director of the Arabic Language and Culture Program at the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and has served as director of the Arabic summer immersion program since 2011. She holds a PhD in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, and JD in Private Law from the University of Tunis.
Carolina Moctezuma, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Carolina Moctezuma is an assistant professor of Spanish at Kutztown University. Among her interests are contemporary Mexican culture, Latin American popular culture and business Spanish.
Gregory E. Moreland, University of Florida
Dr. Gregory E. Moreland teaches Spanish at the University of Florida, where he serves as the Undergraduate Advisor in Spanish and as Director of the Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum (FLAC) program.
Patricia Mougel, University of Minnesota
Patricia Mougel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus where she directs the Lower Division French Program. She teaches at all levels of instruction: beginning to graduate. She served as Vice-President for the MN-AATF chapter and is a regular presenter at state and national conferences.
Maggie Nassif, Brigham Young University
Dr. Maggie Nassif has a PhD in Post-Colonial Theory from Cairo University, and a Masters in Comparative Literature from The American University in Cairo. Maggie Nassif has studied Business at the Wharton School of Business and ASU where she completed her MBA in 2005. She has taught Literature, Women's Studies, Writing, Translation, ESL and Business Culture. She has also held several executive positions as ESL Coordinator at the State University of New York, and Director of the Arabic Summer MBA Program for The Wharton School of Business/Lauder Institute. She is currently the Administrative Director of the National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University.
Kacy M. Peckenpaugh, Weber State University
Kacy Peckenpaugh is an Assistant Professor of German and French at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. She completed her PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona in May, 2014. Her dissertation was entitled, “Becoming Transcultural: Maximizing Study Abroad” and focused on intervention strategies to foster inter/transcultural learning.
Alexander E. Pichugin, Rutgers University
Alexander E. Pichugin, Ph.D., is Director of German Language and Cultural Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a Ph.D. in German from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. from Rutgers University. At Rutgers, he teaches Business German I & II and develops curriculum for these courses. He presented and published research papers on language pedagogy in the US, Canada, and Russia.
Marc Rathmann, Purdue University
Marc Rathmann is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University. He has been teaching Business German courses since 2001 and is an examiner for the Goethe Institute’s ZDfB exam.
Karen Rauch, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Karen Rauch is Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in Nineteenth-Century Spanish and Caribbean literatures, she received her M.A. from Duke University and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Currently, her research focuses on Spanish for the Professions and Translation Studies. She is a recent recipient of an Entrepreneurship grant.
Deb Reisinger, Duke University
Deb Reisinger is Assistant Director of the French Program at Duke University, where she teaches courses in French for Specific Purposes (marketing, global health, business languages). Deb directs a Markets and Management summer program in Québec, Duke in Montréal, and is Chair of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) Commission on French for Business and Economic Purposes.
Ronaldo Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
Ronaldo Ribeiro coordinates and teaches in the Portuguese Language and Culture Program at University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute. His research interests include Applied Linguistics (discourse analyses in education), the teaching of language and culture for business students, Brazilian theatre, and comparative literature.
Mary Risner, University of Florida
Mary Risner develops and manages initiatives that integrate the study of foreign language and area studies across the curriculum. She has taught language at a variety of K–16 levels, as well as in corporate environments. Her research interests are in the role of culture in international business and the integration of emerging technologies in education to help students develop foreign language and intercultural skills for the workplace.
Diana Ruggiero, University of Memphis
Diana Ruggiero is an assistant professor at The University of Memphis. She graduated from the Ohio State University with a Ph.D. in Latin America Literatures and culture. Diana is focused on Spanish for the Professions and linking the University of Memphis with the local Latino community. She is currently developing courses that will combine Community-Based Learning and Spanish for the Professions.
Catherine Savell, Loyola University Maryland
Catherine Savell has been teaching French and Business French at Loyola University Maryland since 1987. For the past three years, she has been involved in a development project in Haiti and linking her work on campus to her overseas activities.
Nola Senna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nola has been teaching for over 30 years and later specialized in educational marketing. As director of the Portuguese Language Program at Illinois since Aug 2010, her main goal is to expand the program through several efforts including the creation of new courses and related projects. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration with a focus on Leadership.
Sandhya Shanker, Michigan State University
Sandhya Shanker is an Academic Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University. She received her Master’s degree in French Teaching from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been teaching French at the undergraduate level for 15 years and also served as Coordinator for the lower division French programs at Michigan State.
Heather Singmaster, Asia Society
Heather Singmaster is Assistant Director, Education at Asia Society where her work focuses on international benchmarking and integrating global competence into Career Tech Ed. She led the Mapping the Nation project. Heather previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and Office of the US Trade Representative. She holds a Masters from NYU and a Bachelors from George Washington University.
Dawn Slack, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Dawn Slack is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Modern Language Studies Department. Specializing in contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, she received both her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on Spanish for the Professions and Spanish-speaking Women Writers. She is a recent recipient of an Entrepreneurship grant.
Sandra L. Summers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Sandra Lindemann Summers has been teaching business German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the past ten years. She is a frequent presenter at CIBER conferences and directs the WiDaF testing center (Deutsch als Fremdsprache in der Wirtschaft) at UNC where she also oversees the AmCham internship program.
Tomoko Takami, University of Pennsylvania
Tomoko Takami is a Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages and the Director of Japanese Language Program in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been teaching Business Japanese/ Japanese for Professions since 2000 and won the BLRT Award in 2013.
Antoinette Tessmer, Michigan State University
Antoinette Tessmer teaches Finance at Michigan State University. Tessmer earned a Ph.D. in Finance, from the University of Namur, Belgium. Her graduate research was conducted at the UIUC Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Dr. Tessmer is currently teaching Excel based financial modeling courses. She also leads an MSU Study Abroad Program on Global Finance Studies in Belgium.
Will Thompson, The University of Memphis
Dr. Will Thompson is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at The University of Memphis. He has been teaching business French for more than twenty years, and has published and presented extensively on the topic of French for the professions. He is a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques.
Kenric K. Tsethlikai, University of Pennsylvania, Lauder Institute
Kenric Tsethlikai is Managing Director of the Lauder Institute and grant manager of Penn Lauder CIBER. Formerly a language program director and OPI-certified tester/rater in French, Kenric oversees the Program in International Studies. In this capacity, Kenric collaborates with faculty, staff, alumni, career management and admissions professionals. He draws upon this background to support language and culture education and initiatives.
Jan Uelzmann, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan Uelzmann is Assistant Professor of German. In his research, Dr. Uelzmann combines approaches from cultural history, cultural studies, film studies, and literary studies to explore questions related to the Adenauer period (Cold War politics, gender relations, Americanization and anti-Americanism, the provisional capital Bonn) and Weimar modernism. He has also published on Foreign Language curriculum development.
David A. Victor, Eastern Michigan University
David Victor is Director of International Business Programs and Full Professor of Management and International Business at the Eastern Michigan University College of Business, and the author of International Business Communication (Harper Collins, 1992), the first book in English on the subject. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Global Advances in Business Communication Journal and an international business consultant.
Juanita Villena-Alvarez, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Dr. Juanita (Babet) Villena-Alvarez, Head of Humanities/Fine Arts (University of South Carolina Beaufort), awarded Carolina Trustee Professorship 2012 (USC Board Trustees), was the South Carolina Governor’s 2010 Professor of the Year. Past leaderships include Program Director - Liberal Studies, then for Spanish. She holds graduate degrees from the Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne, the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (Madrid), and University of Cincinnati.
Haidan Wang, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Haidan Wang is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UHM). She played a leading role in the establishment and development of business Chinese program at UHM, and has been serving as the program coordinator since 2007. Her research interests include language pedagogy, program development, curriculum design, teaching Chinese with technology, and language program assessments.
Maida Watson, Florida International University
Dr. Maida Watson has directed over $200,000 in grants involving Foreign Languages for special purposes, Fulbright-Hays Grants, Grants from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship. She has authored more than 33 articles in academic journals and has also published seven books in the fields of Latin American literature and Business Languages.
Yi Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yi Zhou teaches Chinese language to undergraduates and MBAs in CIBER and Department of Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her previous education includes foreign language education and MBA program. Her research interest focuses on teaching Chinese for business purpose and online language teaching and learning. She published Working Mandarin textbook with Lynne Gerber by Georgetown University Press in July 2007.